Interview about FOSS and Open Graphics Project
http://kerneltrap.org/node/4622
I ran across this blog when doing some research on graphic card drivers
for Linux. Interesting company Timothy Miller works for too.
Mel
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Any advice on what to do with a new laptop lithium ion battery? The
opinions out there are rather confusing as these are not suppose to have
the charge cycle memory problems of the ni-cads. Some say you should
not do deep discharge and charge cycles. Others say though you are not
suppose to,
> Anybody got some well founded advice?
LiIon and LiPo batteries don't have the memory effects that older battery
types had, so pretty much install and just use adapter when you can.
There are some ACPI (I believe) settings which can make using the
'crotch-top' a little more pleasant. You can li
Thanks Simon - I didn't know about this part.
The pack may be 'worn' if continuously run in a hot enviroment or if left
full discharged for a length of time. At some point the control/safety
electronics will flag an error and mark the pack as 'dead'. You can not
recover from this
Simon.
This is a really old article. It is still somewhat applicable, though
both Intel and AMD/ATI have their drivers upstream. ATI has both the
proprietary fglrx driver and the open "radeon" driver. For newer ATI
cards (usually anything with HD in the name, but basically the radeon
35xx and up) you c
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